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[caption id="attachment_376032" align="alignright" width="300"] Vaquita and tototaba on a totoabera net. Photo: O. Vidal[/caption]   The CSG has a long history of engaging in efforts to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction due to bycatch in gillnets targeting the totoaba croaker for its swim bladder or maw....

  On 6-10 November the CITES Standing Committee will consider Mexico’s August 2023 Progress and Results Report on its Compliance Action Plan to Prevent Fishing for and Illegal Trade in Totoaba, their Parts and/or Derivatives, to Protect the Vaquita (No. 2023/112 Mexico Compliance Action Plan, CAP)....

The sudden recent death of Mike Donoghue came as a shock to those of us who knew him. Mike was closely involved for decades in the work of the International Whaling Commission and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, and he was a...

The world’s cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises – lost one of their most effective champions on 11 July 2022 when Dr. William F. Perrin died at the age of 83 in La Jolla, California. He was surrounded not only by his wife Dr. Louella Dolar, herself...

By Gianna Minton (24 Nov 2019)   Background and summary   The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Scientific Council met from 12-14 November 2019 in Bonn, Germany. Its task was to evaluate ongoing activities and draft resolutions, decisions and proposals and make recommendations to member governments that will meet...

  We decided that it was time for an upgrade of the Cetacean Specialist Group Logo. The importance of a professional and attractive logo has increased in recent years; a strong logo has the ability to convey to the world what the Cetacean Specialist Group is,...

  Peter Thomas at the Marine Mammal Commission kindly forwarded the following link, which we thought would be of interest to CSG members https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/museum-end-world. Natalie was long active in the CSG, and many of you knew her and visited the unique collection of marine mammal material...

Written by Dr Simon Elwen, of the Namibian Dolphin Project http://namibiandolphinproject.blogspot.co.uk/ On the 4th of May 2013, marine tour operators working in Walvis Bay, Namibia, reported an 'odd looking whale, possibly a gray whale' to local researchers running the Namibian Dolphin Project (NDP). A few years ago,...